Notes: This is the first Civil War men’s game to be played in the Ducks’ new arena. The two rivals are meeting for an NCAA record 335th time. … Oregon and Oregon State have gone in opposite directions since Oregon’s 63-59 win at Gill Coliseum on Jan. 22. … the Ducks are 4-2 since their OSU win and tied for fifth in the Pac-10 while OSU is in ninth place after going 1-5 since the UO loss. … Oregon’s win in Corvallis snapped a three-game losing streak to OSU. The Beavers lead the all-time series 183-151, but UO leads 85-70 in Eugene. … in the first meeting, Singler had 16 points and UO senior G Jay-R Strowbridge scored 13 of his 15 points in the second half as the Ducks held on after building a 17-point lead in the first half with a huge 25-5 run. … the Ducks made nine three-point shots and got a big lift from Sim, who hit three from long distance and had 15 points. … Lathen Wallace had 15 points and Roberto Nelson 11 to lead the Beavers, who shot just .385 from the field. … OSU leads the nation in steals at 10.13 per game and Cunningham leads the Pac-10 and is third in the nation at 2.96 per game. He is one steal away from tying Gary Payton’s sophomore school record of 72 set in 1987-88. … for Oregon, the 6-foot-6 Catron is averaging career bests in points and field goal percentage (.515) and leads Oregon in scoring, rebounding, shooting percentage, and field goals made. … the Ducks’ bench, which includes Strowbridge and G Malcolm Armstead, has out-scored the opposition’s bench 7 times in the last 9 games and Oregon is 5-2 in those seven games.

Quotes of the week:

Oregon coach Dana Altman: "Oregon State is kind of like a blitzing football team - they're always coming after you. They take a lot of chances, and because of that, they get a lot of steals. They’re athletic, they’re good. They’ve got long, athletic players. … you’ve got to handle the basketball, and you can’t make mistakes. If you do – with bad passes or people out of position – they’ll make you pay because they are an attacking-style defense.''

OSU coach Craig Robinson on the first Civil War game: “We took too many three-point shots (OSU was 5-for-20) and that led to them getting some breakouts. Then once they got a little bit of a lead, they became very comfortable and started making their three-point shots. … what we’ve got to do is defend like we’ve been defending, and then execute on offense. And by execute, I mean finish, because we’ve been running our offense very well and getting good shots. We’ve just been missing them.’’

More Robinson: “This is a rivalry game, and we haven’t been playing very well during different parts of games. We need a very good game on the road to win. … they have a lot of motivation – their first Civil War game in their new arena, the chance to sweep the season series – so we’ve got our work cut out for us.’’

OSU senior G Calvin Haynes: “We’ve beaten the two best teams (UW, Arizona) in the league, and we’ve lost to some of the worst teams in the league. We’re just a couple plays away (from winning more games).’’

Haynes on the first UO game: “I think they played a little bit harder than us. … usually, we’re the team that’s playing harder. We’ve got to bring all of our energy and our focus into this game. … it’s going to be intense and it’s going to be exciting with all of their fans heckling us and stuff.’’

Haynes on what trash talk might go on: “I expect there will be a lot of talking, a lot of jawing with each other. I’m going to come with my best mouthpiece and I expect my teammates to do it as well. It’s going to be a fun game. … I don’t want to say it’s going to be mean (out there) but it’s a heated rivalry. It’s cross-state, and we really don’t like losing to them.’’

Omari Johnson on how to beat Oregon: “Stop them from scoring in transition, and stop them from getting points off turnovers. … they did surprise us (in the first game). We know that any team can beat any other team in the Pac-10 on a given day. We shouldn’t have underestimated them.’’

Johnson on OSU losing confidence after first Civil War loss: “I wouldn’t say that, but it did kind of rattle us that we didn’t win the game. We were disappointed. We believed we should have won.’’

F Kevin McShane, when asked how much everyone was rooting for the seniors to have a big game in their last Civil War. “I think that would be great for them personally because it’s kind of been a hard season for them. It would also be great for us as a team because all of us love our seniors. We’d love for them to have a great game.’’

More McShane: “We can’t let them jump ahead like they did the last time. We’ve got to play 40 minutes of hard basketball. … we won the last Civil War game at Mac Court. I would really like to win the first one at Matthew Knight Arena.’’

Jared Cunningham: "We just need to hit them first before they hit us. The guards need to do their job, and the bigs need to do their jobs. We just need to play hard. It’s not really player vs. player, it’s playing as a team and just getting the job done.’’